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PNS Daily Newscast - March 20, 2018

President Trump again calls for the death penalty for drug dealers and Granite State advocates say they oppose the get tough approach. Also on today’s rundown: a protest against the expansion of tar-sands oil refining in California; and in Seattle, a group demands a moratorium on youth jail construction.

Border Action Network director Juanita Molina says Arpaio has become a national symbol in the immigration debate, mainly by oversimplifying the issue.

"He's created a whole kind of institutional structure around racial profiling. It's like the old spaghetti westerns where you've got people in the black hats and the white hats, and there's nothing in between."

The case began when a Mexican tourist with a valid visa was stopped by deputies outside a church in Cave Creek and detained for nine hours. Still to come is a more wide-ranging U.S. Justice Department lawsuit against Arpaio's office.

"It affects our everyday life. It affects our ability to be able to get up and leave our houses without being harassed. It affects our decisions: Do we go out jogging without our ID if you can get stopped anywhere at any time?"

The court case revolves around whether Arpaio's deputies are violating the constitutional rights of Latino citizens and depriving them of equal protection. Molina believes it's not possible to determine if a Latino person is undocumented just by looking at them.

"We're assuming things, that if they do not speak English or do not speak English fast enough or well enough. These are factors that we're using to determine, as a society, who is documented or undocumented."

The case is a class-action lawsuit that has been expanded to include every Latino driver stopped by the Sheriff's Office since 2007.